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New comment by spicyj in "React Fire: Modernizing React DOM"

spicyj — Fri, 31 Aug 2018 23:07:46 +0000

I manage the React team at Facebook. Only a couple of us have been on the team since before Dan, and I don’t think anyone resents his public persona. Quite to the contrary – Dan does a great job representing us. :)

New comment by spicyj in "Atom 1.29"

spicyj — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 17:07:43 +0000

At Facebook most of our thousands of web devs use Nuclide for remote editing on a repo with hundreds of thousands (or millions) of files and it works as advertised. We don’t use NFS though; all the repo checkouts are on disk on the remote machine.

New comment by spicyj in "Was React Native a bad decision, ugly authentication has me ready to switch"

spicyj — Wed, 01 Aug 2018 16:52:15 +0000

I don’t understand what requires a web view here. You should be able to do anything another app can do (especially if you’re willing to write some custom native code, which I assume you are if you’re considering full native).

New comment by spicyj in "Spotify hits 83M paying subscribers, more than double Apple Music’s 40M"

spicyj — Thu, 26 Jul 2018 17:09:38 +0000

Do you mean the big green button? You can usually click the first track to start playing in order.

New comment by spicyj in "Ask HN: Styling comments in PR reviews"

spicyj — Sat, 21 Jul 2018 16:40:10 +0000

Use Prettier and never look back.

New comment by spicyj in "LinkedIn and Facebook Writing Text Backwards"

spicyj — Sun, 15 Jul 2018 22:11:45 +0000

Browser extension? I know Millenials to Snake People caused this at one point.

New comment by spicyj in "Ask HN: Is Facebook blocked in your office internet?"

spicyj — Sat, 07 Jul 2018 05:35:02 +0000

No. I work at Facebook, and we don’t block any sites except ones with malware.

New comment by spicyj in "React Native: A retrospective from the mobile-engineering team at Udacity"

spicyj — Wed, 04 Jul 2018 15:16:21 +0000

React team here. I think this is largely true. We’re already working on tackling a lot of these rough edges; see a recent post I made to learn more:

https://facebook.github.io/react-native/blog/2018/06/14/stat...

New comment by spicyj in "Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read?"

spicyj — Thu, 28 Jun 2018 11:24:16 +0000

Yes, making the source easy to understand is definitely valuable (even if only for our own team's understanding).

I believe Django's "functionality/(API surface)" quotient is still much lower than React's, which means it's easier to make the source useful to a newcomer.

New comment by spicyj in "Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read?"

spicyj — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 17:52:27 +0000

Thanks!

* Links to source: I use these frequently in other libraries, but I don't think this would be as useful for React, because we tend to have just a few functions each with a complicated implementation (vs programming stdlibs or other frameworks where many methods are on the order of 10-100 lines calling other public functions). Also our implementation isn't that easy to understand. I wonder if you had a particular use case in mind? * Linked method names: Good idea. * Version switcher: We've thought about this and will probably add it at some point.

New comment by spicyj in "Ask HN: What's the best documentation you've ever read?"

spicyj — Wed, 27 Jun 2018 14:46:28 +0000

I work on React. We've worked really hard on our docs, so it would be helpful to know what you don't like about them so we can improve.

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 02:05:12 +0000

Likely yes.

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 02:03:12 +0000

Certainly there are downsides to any setup, but due to React Native's large ambitions I'm unsure if it could have ever been created by an independent community. There is a lot of work that goes into it and the abundant availability of complex real-world problems (to a greater extent than I've seen anywhere else) spurred by this setup pushes React Native to be a more capable project.

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Fri, 15 Jun 2018 00:16:26 +0000

Yes, we'll likely support some form of this. It's important for controlled native components too (ex: text inputs).

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:47:08 +0000

Most of the code is in the repo in React/Fabric/ and ReactCommon/fabric/ but unfortunately it's not runnable yet due to some missing dependencies that aren't currently in the open source repo.

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:38:22 +0000

This is a pretty unrealistic view of how big companies work. Engineers aren't fungible, and no one has been "pulled off" of React or React Native to anything like you suggest.

React is my full time job (I was also the #1 committer before joining FB) and no one is planning to abandon it. Even if Facebook company leadership decided for some reason to divest, React would live on with the support of its community similar to other projects without corporate backing.

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:10:15 +0000

Your plan of sharing business logic sounds good. We don't currently have any recommended way to share code between web and iOS/Android, although I'm hopeful we will at some point in the future.

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:09:29 +0000

It's not unheard of to have "sponsored" issues. In this case though, none of the commenters on that thread work at Facebook. It doesn't mean the issue won't be fixed if no one sponsors it but if you care about it getting fixed sooner, you can send in a fix yourself or sponsor someone else to do that work.

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:51:28 +0000

No concrete plans, but I'd love to see it happen someday!

New comment by spicyj in "State of React Native 2018"

spicyj — Thu, 14 Jun 2018 21:17:22 +0000

Hi! I'm the author. Let me know if you have questions that aren't covered in the post.